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Why Minimal Multiple Rules Provide a Unique Window into UG and L2
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Amaral, Luiz; Roeper, Tom – Second Language Research, 2014
This article clarifies some ideas presented in this issue's keynote article (Amaral and Roeper, this issue) and discusses several issues raised by the contributors' comments on the nature of the Multiple Grammars (MG) theory. One of the key goals of the article is to unequivocally state that MG is not a parametric theory and that its…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Language Universals, Grammar, Linguistic Theory
Multiple Grammars and Second Language Representation
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Amaral, Luiz; Roeper, Tom – Second Language Research, 2014
This paper presents an extension of the Multiple Grammars Theory (Roeper, 1999) to provide a formal mechanism that can serve as a generative-based alternative to current descriptive models of interlanguage. The theory extends historical work by Kroch and Taylor (1997), and has been taken into a computational direction by Yang (2003). The proposal…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Linguistic Theory, Language Acquisition, Native Language